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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In 1600 the Wampanoag lived primarily in what two states?
(a) Kentucky and Delaware.
(b) New Jersey and New York.
(c) New York and Pennsylvania.
(d) Massachusetts and Rhode Island.

2. Nathaniel Saltonstall was selected as a judge for what specific court responsible for the trial and sentence of people for the crime of witchcraft in Massachusetts during the Salem Witch Trials?
(a) Court of Salem, Massachusetts.
(b) Court of Oyer and Terminer.
(c) Court of Anderson and Overlay.
(d) Court of Franklin and Boston.

3. It is very likely that John Sassamon was adopted or indentured to the family of whom?
(a) Increase Mather.
(b) John Alderman.
(c) William Hubbard.
(d) Richard Callicot.

4. Who was fiercely competitive with William Hubbard and even campaigned to discredit Hubbard's account of the war?
(a) William Hubbard.
(b) Increase Mather.
(c) Richard Callicot.
(d) John Sassamon.

5. What book did William Hubbard write at the order of the Colonial government, which paid him 50 pounds for it?
(a) A History of the Northwest.
(b) A History of New England.
(c) A History of England.
(d) An Account of the Great Swamp Battle.

6. A Narrative of the Troubles with the Indians was published in what year?
(a) 1676.
(b) 1642.
(c) 1677.
(d) 1612.

7. Sassamon was a Christian minister in what Indian praying town?
(a) Wampapaquan.
(b) Nahauton.
(c) Quebec.
(d) Namasket.

8. Who is thought to have mentored John Sassamon?
(a) James Williams.
(b) John Eliot.
(c) John Alderman.
(d) Increase Mather.

9. What standard picture of New England during the war, including landscapes of ash, farms destroyed, and bodies without heads did Nathaniel Saltonstall write?
(a) "A History of the Great War."
(b) "True but Brief Account of our Losses."
(c) "A Brief Account of New England."
(d) "An Account of King Philip's War."

10. On what date did the Narragansetts attack Providence, destroying it?
(a) March 29, 1676.
(b) December 10, 1675.
(c) September 12, 1568.
(d) November 14, 1676.

11. When the Puritans came to America, the Algonquians were thought to be what?
(a) Nomads.
(b) Literate.
(c) Angels.
(d) Civilized.

12. When was Nathaniel Saltonstall born?
(a) 1652.
(b) 1677.
(c) 1639.
(d) 1641.

13. According to the author, many colonists found it hard to write about the war, such as what individual who felt totally devastated by his experience of the burning of Springfield?
(a) John Alderman.
(b) Richard Callicot.
(c) John Pynchon.
(d) William Hubbard.

14. What does the author say represented filth and chaos to the Puritans in Chapter 4, Where is Your O God?
(a) Drinking alcohol.
(b) The letting of blood.
(c) Eating pork.
(d) Eating chicken.

15. When was John Eliot born?
(a) 1641.
(b) 1604.
(c) 1595.
(d) 1612.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was Increase Mather born?

2. At what age did Hugo Grotius publish his first book?

3. Passaconaway was a powerful medicine man and sachem of what tribe?

4. In 1600, the population of the Wampanoag numbered approximately how many members?

5. The sachem Metacomet was also known by what name?

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